GAWU proposes 10 per cent wage increase
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) were involved in two sessions of discussion yesterday in their wages and salaries negotiation conciliation meeting. President of GAWU, Komal Chand, told Kaieteur News last evening that GAWU has proposed that GuySuCo increase the salaries of sugar workers by 10 percent. [...]
Freddie is wrong on dictatorship and Ravi Dev
DEAR EDITOR, Just when I thought that Freddie Kissoon had turned over a new leaf after an unsavoury allegation from Muniram, he proved me wrong by reverting to the old type of writings of cussing out others and calling Guyana a dictatorship. Even though I had alerted him time and again on his blatant misuse [...]
NAACIE hosts seminar for Branch representatives
Several branch representatives were yesterday a part of a one-day seminar hosted by the National Association of Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees. The branch representatives were drawn from the West Coast and East Coast Demerara and the Georgetown area. According to General Secretary of NAACIE, Kenneth Joseph, the aim of the seminar was to properly [...]
For how long must this abominable situation be endured?
DEAR EDITOR, Orrin Gordon’s letter to Kaieteur News, Thursday Oct 8th 2009, “Lindeners must wake up to the clear causes of injustices”, must surely be of concern for all Lindeners and is one which I fully support. It was quite heartening seeing such a letter coming from a top functionary within our community, as I [...]
Is the psyche of the former Guyanese colonial subject permanently damaged?
Quite an impressive list of Third World scholars argue that colonialism’s most dangerous consequence was not what it did to the land and the economy of the colonial subject but to his/her psychology. This is an argument that is penetrating and deeply moving. You are torn between accepting it and rejecting. I honestly haven’t made [...]
I wrote as a patriot
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the letter of the Honourable and Learned Mr. Charles R. Ramson S.C., M.P, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, hereinafter referred to as “The Honourable Attorney General”, set out at p.5 of the Kaieteur News of October, 27, 2009. The Honourable Attorney General’s reference to, “…… I knew my [...]
Republic Bank launches 2009 apprenticeship programme
The second Republic Bank apprenticeship programme was launched yesterday at its head office at Promenade Court. The batch of 23 apprentices will serve in various departments across the Bank’s branches in Guyana. Addressing the youths, their parents and others present, Edwin Gooding, Managing Director; Republic Bank Guyana told the group that they should use the [...]
“Desk riding” experts like Peeping Tom should ask rice farmers’ opinion about land leveling
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the heading of the Peeping Tom article in the Kaieteur News of October 11, 2009 “Modern Technology must be appropriate, cost effective and beneficial.” Nothing is wrong with that statement; I fully agree. However, I disagree with the article itself. With the views expressed in the article and applied, we [...]
Critical thinking
Behind the seemingly legalistic dispute concerning the propriety of the government’s post-election actions, lies some trenchant disagreement between the two major parties as to facts about how they attempted to defuse any impasse before the elections. Given the many potential reasons to be skeptical of information in conflictual situations, it is not surprising that agreeing [...]
Guyoil replace GWI
Imagine things reach de stage wheh everybody decide that dem got to get smart. Dem got to mek money and it don’t matter how dem get it. And according to dem boys is dem who wukking wid de government that doing this thing—robbing people. Cars does wuk pun gasoline and everybody know that people does [...]
Ex-Region 3 deputy murdered
Residents of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, were left in shock yesterday after former Region Three Vice Chairman, Ramnauth Bisram, one of the community’s prominent members, was found murdered in his home. Bisram, 55, of 11 Canal Number Two, North Section, was found lying in a pool of blood in one of his bedrooms [...]
Chief of Staff orders arrest
Coast Guards made unauthorised trip A joint criminal investigation involving representatives of the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Defence Force’s G2 Branch and the Coast Guard has been launched to determine the exact mission of three ranks from the GDF who were detained by police at Parika on Sunday. The three Coast Guard ranks had [...]
GUYOIL compensates affected customers
All affected customers have been compensated and their vehicles are back in working order, said a representative of the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) Providence Terminal yesterday. Several customers had their vehicles malfunction on Sunday after purchasing tainted gasoline from the GUYOIL Service Stations at Providence and on Sheriff Street, Georgetown. The tainted fuel this newspaper [...]
Brazilian stabbed to death in Robb Street apartment
Police are probing the murder of an elderly Brazilian whose bound body was discovered with multiple stab wounds in a Robb Street apartment yesterday afternoon. The shocking discovery was made by a neighbour who went to check on the elderly man after not seeing him for all of yesterday. The dead man was only known [...]
Negligence blamed for three-vehicle collision
Negligence on the part of a motorist may have been the sole cause for a three-vehicle collision last evening at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara. Reports are that sometime after 19:00 hours a truck, GLL6985, was heading in a southerly direction when it collided with motorcar, PJJ 3041, which was travelling on the Goed Fortuin [...]
Regional govts move to regulate professionals
…journalists decry move as means to muzzle press The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday stated that it views with alarm, the draft Professional Services Bill being pushed by the CARICOM Secretariat for introduction within the CARICOM states. The proposed legislation seeks to regulate and licence several professions across the region, including that of journalism. [...]
Injured man faints in court after being remanded
A man who appeared to have been severely injured was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm to his spouse. When the magistrate made the announcement, the man, Perry Whyte, 31, of 168 Albouystown, fainted. It is alleged that on October 20, last, at Albouystown, the accused unlawfully and maliciously [...]
Dem boys seh… Henry planning fuh jump at gymkhana
These past few days was nuff killing. Dem boys want to know if people gone mad. Some men go wheh a man live and after a brawl, dem kill he. A Brazilian get kill in he apartment and a man from West Demerara get kill in he house. A woman deh drinking and de next [...]
LBI planting gang back at work
Sugar workers at the La Bonne Intention (LBI) estate are back at work, after the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has agreed to discuss the ongoing issue with the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU). The two entities are slated to meet today in order to charter a way forward. This is according to General [...]
GuySuCo/GAWU still locked in ‘talks’
Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) are still deadlocked in their wages and salaries negotiation. This is according to General Secretary of GAWU, Seepaul Narine, who told Kaieteur News yesterday that GuySuCo refuses to increase its offer from three percent, while GAWU wants it to be higher. The [...]
Movie Town owner was not the robber
Contrary to what was published in last week Thursday’s Edition of this newspaper, Robbie Singh, proprietor of Movie Town Video Club, was not the individual who appeared in court to answer a charge of robbery. In the robbery case which was heard by Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, the perpetrator was in [...]
Deal on Wheels winner collects prize
A Lindener was the lucky Republic Bank customer to claim the brand new Nissan Cube (in background) which represented the grand prize in the recently concluded Deal on Wheels loan promotion. Leonard Bacchus, (at left) of Christianburg, Linden, received the key to his fully loaded vehicle from Managing Director of the Bank, Mr Edwin Gooding, [...]
Delayed $400M conservancy project now hinges on World Bank
By Gary Eleazar The $400M funded World Bank Project that involves works to be carried out on the East Demerara Water Conservancy was at one time placed on hold because of the fact that the lone bidder had submitted a bid that was over inflated. Today that project hinges on a renewed proposal to that [...]
Grenada born beauty officially crowned Miss Guyana World 2009
Its official! Imarah Radix, 24, was officially bestowed the title of Miss Guyana World 2009 yesterday at a simple but significant ceremony at the Roraima Duke Lodge. Miss Guyana World 2008, Christa Simmons, passed the tiara to Radix before a gathering of mostly media operatives. Banawattie Shaw of the Nrityageet family pinned on the [...]
Fish Festival IV ends on a high note
The annual Rockstone Fish Festival, which is now in its fourth year, attracted hundreds of people seeking to access Region Ten’s newest tourism destination to experience unadulterated leisure and fun. Fish Festival this year, however, was more of a picnic with whole families taking the day out, with picnic baskets, tents, hammocks and other paraphernalia [...]
